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Baraka Agricultural College, Molo,Kenya promotes Sustainable Agriculture
and Rural Development (SARD) in Eastern Africa through participatory
education, extension and research. Baraka has a number of beekeeping
courses, a beekeeping equipment workshop and a beekeeping outreach
project to local communities.
A new national organisation in Kenya representating the most active
honey industry stakeholders. The main interest of the organisation
is to develop a vibrant beekeeping industry in Kenya from which
all can benefit. Get in touch if you are interested in contacting
the main movers and shakers in the Kenyan beekeeping industry.
A private Kenyan company based in Nairobi (Jamhuri Park) who purchase
and market honey and beeswax. Honey Care also provide beekeeping
training and sell beekeeping equipment.
This is the web version of an excellent beekeeping book called
'Small Scale Beekeeping' by Curtis Gentry (Peace Corps Manual M0017
of 1982) - This is a great book and very useful for beekeeping beginners
in the tropics. The web version of the book is by Conrad Berube.
This book is available free online from the Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. The book is a very useful
resource for African beekeepers and covers issues of interest to
African beekeepers such as appropriate hive technology and African
bee pests and diseases.
Apiconsult and Baraka Agricultural College are working in partnership
with 'Friends of Kitui' - a group based in Dublin, Ireland and the
Catholic Diocese of Kitui (Kenya) to empower local women in Kitui
through beekeeping. See www.friendsofkitui.com
for more details.
Moshi - Tanzania. Have a look at this interesting web page on stingless
bees (meliponiculture) from Tanzania. Great pictures and allot to
be learned/shared on this subject.
A simple guide in PDF format (you need Adobe
acrobat reader to open this file) from the Kenya Agricultural Research
Institute on how to keep bees.
The June 2007 edition of the Organic Farmer Magazine (Kenya) contains
a number of interesting articles on beekeeping (pdf format).
A United Kingdom based business importing and marketing African
honey - in particular from Zambia.
A British based beekeeping development organisation supporting
beekeepers in Africa and elsewhere. The main aim is to provide education
and technical advice in beekeeping and suitable business skills.
A South African based website dealing with African bees and beekeeping
focused on South Africa.
A very interesting and useful technical note on beehive designs
suitable for the tropics including Africa. The note was written
by Dr. G. F. Townsend of the University of Guelph Canada.
Information on beekeeping from South Africa including beekeeping
development projects implemented in Mozambique and Nigeria.
A Kenyan company dealing in bee products and supplying inputs such
as beehives, suits, smokers and extraction equipment. The company
also carries out training and advisory services in beekeeping.
Have a look at Danny Ashton's nice blog on the health benefits of honey.
This is Lesster Leow's site on Ugandan beekeeping. This a very attractive site with links to Lesster's blog - great pictures of beekeeping in Uganda and informative articles based on practical experience. By the looks of it great courses in African beekeeping also available.
Nice information on bee products and information sources on beekeeping from Bio-Vision.
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